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September 2024

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Welcome to GWIS Empower! GWIS Empower aims to offer career and leadership advice for women in science, complemented by member-generated content. This issue highlights cancer treatments unique to women, honorary membership award application, a webinar on gaps in women's health, a DEI article on the underrepresentation of women at the Fronteirs Research Foundation, and introduce the 2023-2024 GWIS national fellowship awardees. Additionally, a podcast conversation with Dr. Cruz discussing her work in medical innovations.

Outsmarting Ovarian Cancer

September is ovarian cancer awareness month, a health concern unique to women. One in 87 women develops ovarian cancer, and the prospects of survival have not changed over the past 30+ years. As a biochemist at the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Sharon Stack and her team investigate how ovarian cancer cells behave in the human body and how this cancer type is affected by obesity and aging. Listen to an interesting interview with Dr. Stack about her science and her thoughts on future research needs on ovarian cancer.

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Honorary Membership Awards

Link to Award Page

Special Event

Science webinar - "The women’s health gap: Why sex matters in research"

Interested in reproductive medicine and researchers try to close the gender gap in this particular area? Then register for the Science webinar on "The women’s health gap: Why sex matters in research" where a panel of experts will explore unique health challenges that affect women. The webinar will air on September 18 2024 at 10am EST.

Podcast Alert

A conversation with Dr. Meriem Galval Cruz

With over 15 years of experience, Dr. Cruz has been at the forefront of regulatory strategy and commercialization for the development of small molecules and biologics across a wide range of therapeutic areas. Her expertise include regulatory submissions and the development of applications in the US and Europe, ensuring that crucial medical innovations reach those in need.
Currently at Biogen, Dr. Cruz's impressive career also includes roles as an Associate Director of Regulatory Affairs at Dunn Regulatory Associates and Senior Regulatory Scientist at Cote Orpha, LLC. At the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), she played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between academic research and the pharma/biotech industry.

Listen to the GWIS podcast where Dr. Cruz shares her journey, insights into the regulatory landscape, and her passion for neuroscience. Her story is a testament to resilience and the importance of adapting and forging your own path.

Listen here

Photo by Roland Römhildt

For men only? Lack of women winners for million-euro science prize draws protests

The Frontiers Research Foundation (FRF) held a ceremony earlier this year to award three scientists that safeguard the environment through their research. All three awardees were men, as they were last year, despite there being seven female finalists in 2024. Finalists from the Global South AND are women, are hardly represented at all. An additional source of inequality is that the prize winner is a single individual, rather than the collaborative team that often produces the respective research. In 2023, Petra Holden was the first author of the award winning paper, but her male mentor was declared the recipient of the prize. Although he fought to add Dr. Holden on the contract, she says: "This prize is being influenced by systemic privileges that come from a legacy of the past. The organization needs to change that.” Read the full story here.

Link to Article

GWIS National Fellowship

We present to you, the nine 2023-2024 GWIS National Fellowship awardees!
Every year, GWIS National Fellowship Program recognizes women who are performing hypothesis driven research in STEM and Social Science fields, and who have shown an outstanding ability for promising careers. We are excited to announce nine recipients of our 2023-2024 fellowship awards along with Honorable Mentions.

Meet Recipients Here

Scholarships

AAUW Career Development Grant

With the Career Development Grants, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) aims to support the career progression of women. Primarily, women that pursue their first advanced degree or credentials in education, health and medicine, STEM and social sciences. Applicants can request support for both full-time or part-time coursework such as a second bachelor’s or first master’s degree.The maximum amount that can be awarded to an applicant in a degree program is $20,000, and for non-degree programs it is $8,000. The application is open from September 16 to November 15 2024. For more information, visit the AAUW website.

Link to Scholarship

Want to connect on-line with other women scientists? Join the GWIS Slack channel. GWIS also has a private LinkedIn group for connecting with nearly 2,000 women scientists to share interesting news, job opportunities, and more! Want to form a small group? Contact the GWIS Media group to access our private forums and help you solicit fellow GWIS participants!

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About GWIS

Founded in 1921, Graduate Women in Science is an inter-disciplinary society of scientists who collectively seek to advance the participation and recognition of women in science and to foster research through grants, awards and fellowships. We comprise over 20 active chapters of more than 800 women who are "United in Friendship through Science" to support and inspire member professional goals and mutual appreciation of science. Learn more at www.gwis.org.

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